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Issue 12
Spring/Summer 1995

EDITORIAL

Confessions of an Editor

by Rick Lewis

ARTICLES

The Scientist and the Savage

A dialogue by Mike Fuller.

Wronging the Ignorant and the Dumb

Tony Skillen on the mistreatment of animals and humans.

Emotions: A Defence of Irrationality

Carole Haynes-Curtis on stuffed tigers, pink elephants and Mr. Spock.

Violent Films: Natural Born Killers?

Matthew Kieran wants the censors to make his day.

For Tolerance

Jonathan Gorman thanks God for the ideal of tolerance.

Trancendence, Logic and Identity

by Trevor Curnow

BIG philosophy!

John Mann conducts an opinion survey in cyberspace.

INTERVIEW

Gaarder's World

Philosophy Now interviews Jostein Gaarder, author of the best-selling history of philosophy, Sophie's World.

LETTERS

Opinions on Logic Chopping, Cannibals, Collective Indignation, Car Mania, and more...

BOOK REVIEWS

The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman's God in Us

Gordon Giles reviews Bishop Richard Harries' reply to the book that got Anthony Freeman sacked from his vicarage.

It's That Man Again

Nietzsche returns! John Lippitt reviews F. A. Lea's The Tragic Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche (Athlone Press, 1993) and Keith M. May's Nietzsche on the Struggle between Knowledge and Wisdom (St. Martin's Press, 1993).

Undermining the Present?

Bob Fitter reviews Bryan Appleyard's bool Understanding the Present.

SHORT STORY

Humanity

by Danny Kodicek.